2008 Lancer scooter By scooter99 (Read 583 times)

[scooter99]

Hello everyone I ran into a problem today. So here's the story. yesterday i took my scooter's battery out and put it to charge. I took the battery out of the Battery Tender because it was late night and I was not conferrable leaving it all night. So Today morning I pt it back on my scooter. First i connected the ground wire. But when I got the positive wire and i touched the positive on the battery the starter turned on. And it wont stop until i take the positive wire from the battery. Can someone please tell me whats going on. Thank you in advance.

[cruiser]

Sounds like you may have a short across the large terminals of the starter relay. Check the heavy red wire which runs from the battery to the the starter relay. It should be securely attached at one terminal. Another heavy red wire should run from the other starter relay terminal to the starter. These terminals should not have any wires or other metal items across them which would bypass the relay and cause the starter to spin whenever the battery is connected. The only other scenario is that the starter relay is stuck in the on (start) position. If you think this is the problem, you might try tapping on the outside of the relay with a small tool to see if it opens the internal contacts.